Paramore abandon their dark and heavy transition showcased on Brand New Eyes for a more upbeat, poppy sound. Although positive themes may inspire some cheesy lyrics, captivating melodies and expressive vocals easily triumph throughout the record. The band utilizes a more playful rhythm section, while simultaneously revealing a plethora of refreshing, experimental sounds. Overall Rating: 8.9/10

rEdit: first listen, this is on par with Brand New Eyes as their best, although it feels more like a more grown up, rexperimental version of Riot!. On another note, Part II may quite possibly be Paramore's greatest song.

It's really a matter of personal taste when it comes to whether or not the
experimentation on Paramore's self titled album will alienate you or attract you. In
my personal opinion, I think that all of the styles delved into here work very well
with each other, and that the amount of diversity that's present on this makes for
the most fun, cohesive, adventurous, colorful, distinguished, theatrical,
accomplished, ambitious, and overall interesting album that Paramore has ever
made. The ideas and directions that are embraced here find all sorts of different
methods to breathe much needed fresh air into the alternative rock/pop punk genre
while remaining focused, but at the same time, it's understandable how this music
can be seen as a loss of identity for the group, and polarizing to some fans because
of that.

Just so you know, Sputnikmusic is the only website that wrote a scathing review for this album while others are praising this album's diverse change and new approach at making a fresh pop punk experience. Not everything works and the album is overly long, but there is plenty to enjoy and rock out to.

Fuck me, that is a terrible album cover. It's a new paramore, that's for sure, but that's not such a bad things. It tries hard to be different and "edgier," which I don't like, but there are a good handful of songs here that have really grown on me. Riot! will always be my favourite, but this proves that you can't count them out just because the Farro brothers left.

Extravagant audacity and the absence of the Farro brothers don't really make a good album here. While I personally don't mind "Still Into You" and "Anklebiters", the rest of the tracks on Paramore are either forgettable or some kind of massive abortion - and speaking of the latter, I sort of liked "Ain't It Fun" at one point until coming to the realization that Hayley Williams' cynicism was bombastic as fuck. The three interludes are just there, being essentially the same track except with different titles. Paramore apparently have maturity and the phrase 'a big step backwards' mixed up for sure, and Hayley just can't seem to stop rubbing her chest all over this release; then again, that would be quite a bit like Heaven once you think entirely hard about it... Ha ha.

Paramore with M83 producer Justin Meldal-Johnson shoot for the cinematic grandness inspired by that record on their self-titled Paramore. Although the effort is presented, too many tracks here are only decent at best and when they try to break into a creative mold it unfortunately doesn't break any new ground. Props to the band for trying new styles, however at 17 tracks this is an overbloated record that unfortunately makes Paramore miss the mark they were aiming for.

I haven't been following Paramore's recent dramas regarding their guitarist and drummer. I
don't know or care why they left; but I can say with certainty, it's not Paramore without
them, which is somewhat ironic considering the album's called Paramore. I'm not sure how big
of an impact they had in the writing process but a drastic difference is definitely
detected. Everything about them, their whole feel, it's just different. It's so..
Uninspired.

An abomination. Bring back the Farro brothers. Paramore is an album that follows no pattern and serves no purpose. Hayley Williams and her evergrowing ego has become the only creative influence of the band and this is undoubtedly the worst thing that could have ever happened to Paramore.

You know, I thought Haley's voice was the one decent facet of this album, then I heard "Ain't It Fun." This is just a shit pop album and though it's main fault is its lack of instrumental backing (hindsight kudos to the Farro brothers) Haley really didn't do anything to back it up.

Utterly disappointing. Bland lyrics, overly produced tunes that don't feature an identity of
their own, since they're all over the place, and Hayley's voice, for the first time, very
hit or miss (more 'miss', while we're on that). I'm okay with change, but this doesn't even
sound like Paramore, at all. Only 3 or 4 songs were good, and even those lack the punch that
this band once had, with the exception of "Part II", wich for me is absolutely awesome, and
one of their best songs up until this point - specially the chorus, wich really freaking
rules. But, in the end, that's the only moment where the album TRULY shines. I wanted to
like this, I really did, but it just left me with a bad taste.

Extremely disappointing. Paramore were never exactly a ground - breaking band by any means, but this album is an absolute joke. It's not cohesive at all, and the lyrics are by far the worst we've heard from the band. It has it's moments, but they're few and far between.